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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J.. H. MALONEY. DEVIGE FOR RBPLAGING TRAM CARS,

Patented Feb. 2, 1897.

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(No Model.) 2 Sh eets Sheet 2. J. H MALONEY. DEVICE FOR REPLAUING TRAM CARS.

INVENTOR Patented Feb. 2, 1897.

ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES section on the line 4 4: of Fig. 1.

UNITED STATES PATENT O EIoE.

JAMES H. MALONEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR REPLACING TRAM-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,463, dated February 2, 189 7.

Application filed August 13, 1896. $erial No. 602,606. (No model.)

To to whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. MALONEY, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Device for Replacing Tram-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a device for replacing on their rails derailed trolley or horse cars in a manner to save great delays and inconvenience to the public and expense to the railway companies.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the device that it may be expeditiously and conveniently applied to the rail, and whereby it will be made in several parts of such size and of such simple construction that the various sections can be readily placed in position, or separated and stored in cars, it being possible for the cars to be operated on the replacing device by the power ordinarily employed to drive or draw them.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the greater porti on of a device of the double character. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, illustrating the device as applied at the inside of a rail. Fig. 4 is a transverse Fig. 5 is a transverse section similar to the section shown in Fig. 3, but illustrating the adaptability of the device to a rail when placed at the outside of the same. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the device adapted for a curve. Fig. 7 is a transverse section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a similar section on the line 8 8 of Fig. 6, and Fig. 9 is a plan view of a portion of the device in its single form.

In the double form of the device the main parts consist of a body A, adapted to be fitted to the rail (1, and laterals B and B, which are adjustably connected with the ends of the body, each lateral being made up of one or more sections. The body A at its center is provided with a horizontal table 10, and this table portion rests fiat on the rail and extends in the same plane practically at top and bottom from side to side. The body, however, is inclined from each side of its central horizontal table downward'to meet the tread and the bed of the rail 0, to which the device is applied, the inclined ends being designated by the numeral 12.

A channel 11 is formed in the top of the body, conforming to its longitudinal contour, and the said channel is straight at its ends, communicating with the bed 11 of the rail, but is angular at its central portion, as is clearly shown in Fig. 1. The surface atone side of the groove or channel 11 forms the tread, and at each end portion of the body at the opposite side of the groove or channel 11 a guard 13 is formed, which at the upper portion of the incline at the ends of the body, is pointed and merges into the said groove or channel 11. This guard 13 is located some distance above the lateral step, which while forming an integral portion of the body is below the plane of its main portion, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. This lateral step is inclined in the same direction and practicallyto the same extent as the ends of the main or upper portion of thebody, and is provided with a channel 15 to receive the flange of the wheel and tread 14., adjacent to the guard 13 and a guard 16 at the opposite side of the channel.

The channels in the lateral steps connect with the main channel 11 of the body at each side of the center of the channel, the tread let being therefore some-what pointed at its inner end, and the channel 15 at the right or at the left of the center of the main channel may be placed out of communication with the said main channel by means of a switchtongue 17. This switch-tongue is provided with a central apertured lug at one end, the opposite end being inclined to meet the inner wall of the channel 15, which it is adapted to cross. The lug of the tongue is placed upon a step 19, formed at the central portion of the body near one side and in front of the main groove or channel 11. A washer 20 is then placed upon the upper portion of this lug and a pin 21 is passed through the washer, the lug, and through the body A of the device, as shown in Fig. 4,.the said pin being provided with a thumb-nut or its equivalent bearing upon the washer. Under this construction it is evident that the tongue may be readily shifted to cross one or the other of the lateral channels 15.

Then the device is to be applied to the inner side of a rail, the outer edge of the body is provided with a longitudinal undercut flange 23, which will receive the outer edge of the tread of the rail, as shown in Fig. 3, and a set-screw 24 is placed in such a mannor as to engage with said portion of the railtread. The under face 25 of the body near its ends extends across the bed of the rail a predetermined distance, but is provided with a downwardly-extending step 26, which engages With the tread of the rail near its inner edge, the opposing end of the lateral step of the body engaging with the inner longitudinal edge of the rail at the bed. Therefore by tightening up on the set-screw 24 the body will be clamped upon both longitudinal edges of the rail. At the center of the body the under face is practically straight throughout, except that a rib 27 is formed, which has bearing upon the bed of the rail, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

\Vhen the body of the device is applied at the outside of a rail, as shown in Fig. 5, the tread of the main or table portion of the body will still be over the head of the rail, and the guard 13 corresponding to the guard 13 in Fig. 3, will likewise be over the body of the rail, but the under face of the main portion of the body will be slightly changed in contour, being stepped to fit closely throughout to both the head and tread of the rail.

The flange 23, which corresponds to the flange 23 in Fig. 3, will clamp the longitudinal edge of the rail-bed and will carry the set-screw 24, while the pendent wall of the lateral step opposed to the flange will engage with the longitudinal outer edge of the tread of the rail.

The laterals or branches B and B are alike in construction, and each lateral consists of an inner section 29 and one or more outer sections 30. The inner section of each lateral or branch has a knuckle or a hinge connection 31 with the outer end portion of a lateral step of the body, the knuckle or hinge being formed by producing a circular recess-in a lateral step and forming a circular head on the inner section of the lateral or branch, which is entered into the said recess, and a pivot-pin 32 is then introduced, preferably round in cross-section, so that each lateral or branch rail may have lateral movement to or from the main rail, so that a lateral rail may be carried at any desired angle to a main rail that the position of the wheels of the derailed car may require. The sections 30 of the lateral or branch rails have an interlocking connection, and are rigidly connected with the inner section and with each other, but the connection is separable, the interlocking members being connected by pins Each lateral or branch track is provided with a channel 15., adapted to receive the flanges of the wheels, which channels are in communication with the channels 15 in the body. Each of the lateral or branch rails is further provided with a tread 14 and a guard 16, corresponding respectively to the tread 14 and the guard 16 on the body of the device.

In Fig. 6 I have illustrated the application of the device to a curve. Each and every part of the device is the same in construction as that shown in Fig. 1, with the exception that the entire device is given a curvature corresponding to that of the curved rail 0 to which it is to be applied, but there is a slight difference in the formation of the body of the device, inasmuch as the curved rail is provided with a guard 34, which extends upward to a point above the tread of the rail, and therefore the bottom of the body is not provided with the step 26, (shown in Fig. 3,) necessary in the straight form, to give the body a bearing on the bed of the rail, the guard 34 extending upward to a bearing against the straight under surface 25 of the body, as illustrated in Fig. 7, and at the center of the body at the bottom the web 27 (shown in Fig. 4) is omitted, since the guard 34 takes its place.

In Fig. 9 I have illustrated a single form of the device, in which the body A is provided with a table 37 at one end, which is the Widest end, the opposite or narrower end 36 tapering down to meet the track 0, and in this form of the body a single channel 38 is formed, which is in communication with the bed of the rail at the tapering end of the body, but at the opposite end the channel 38 is quite removed from the rail-bed. A guard 39 is likewise provided, and a single lateral or branch rail B is employed, constructed in the same manner as the branch rails shown in 1, the inner section of the branch rails being provided with a head 31, pivoted by means of a pin 32 in the head, and the channel of the branch rail is in communication with the channel 38 of the body, as is also the tread-surface of the branch rail in communication with the tread-surface of the body, and the guard-surfaces of the body and branch rails are also in communication.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A device for replacing cars on tracks, comprising a body having clamps for attachment to a rail and provided with a main channel extending through from end to end, collateral channels communicating with the main channel at each side of its center, and lateral or branch rails having a hinge connection with the end portions of the body,

the said branch or lateral rails being capable of lateral movement and each branch rail being provided with a channel arranged for registry with the collateral channel in the body, substantially as shown and described.

2. A device for replacing cars on tracks,

comprising a body having clamps for attachment to a rail and provided with a main channel extending through from end to end, collateral channels communicating With the main channel at each side of its center,-and lateral or branch rails having a hinge connection With the end portions of the body, the said branch or lateral rails being capable of lateral movement and each branch rail being provided with a channel arranged for registry With the collateral channel in the body, a switch-tongue removably placed across one of the collateral channels at its connection with the main channel of the body, closing the lateral channel to which it is applied and forming a continuation of one side Wall of the opposing collateral channel, as and forthe purpose specified.

3. In a device for replacing cars upon tracks, a body-section provided with clamps for attachment to a rail and having its under face arranged to be supported 011 the rail, a portion of the body extending beyond the side of the rail, said body having a central table and its ends tapered to meet the rail to which the device is applied, the body being also provided in its main portion With achannel extending from end to end and in ite projecting portion With collateral channels, communicating with the main channel near its 1 center, and lateral rails or branches consaid body having a central table and its ends tapered to meet the rail to which the device is applied, the bodybeing also provided in its main portion with a channel extending from end to end, and in its projecting portion with collateral channels, communicating with the main channel near its center, lateral rails or branches constructed in detachable sections and p'ivotally connected with the main section, each branch rail being capable of lateral movement and being provided with a channel communicating with a collateral channel 011 the main section, and a switchtongue arranged to close either of the collateral channels Where it communicates With the main channel of the body, as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES II. MALONEY. Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, A. A. HOPKINS. 

